Exteriors
Gardens
From pristine greens to sloping beauties, parasols to peonies, shade yourself in the boughs of our garden stories
Playing house in Dominique Lafourcade’s Lilliputian garden follies
Dominique Lafourcade’s extravagant summer play houses for children hold timeless (and ageless) delight
Author: Oliver Maclennan
Does global warming call for innovative cacti gardens?
Arnaud Mauriéres believes that the future of horticulture lies with gardens of prickly succulents. This greenery – born in a dry bed – is just as pretty as traditional English flower-patches however, bursting into bright and fragrant bloom
Author: Arnaud Mauriéres
Photographer: Roland Beaufre
The bizarre ‘Ideas Magazine’ and its eccentric garden follies
First published in 1796, Ideas Magazine… featured all manner of ways in which ‘educated nations’ could indulge their burgeoning passion for peculiar garden follies and ornaments. From haute-couture hen houses to wacky Ferris wheels, the more fanciful the better
Author: Michael Huey
Photographer: Michael Huey
A lonely 13th-century church garden bursts into life as a community space
A 13th-century church garden in Antwerp bursting with plants has been rechristened by tulip expert and landscape architect Ronald van der Hilst. Now he has blessed the plot with a design worthy of its ecclesiastical setting
Author: Emma Becque